Great Britain/England from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Large contemporary scrapbook containing 292 autographs of members of Britain's House of Lords; clipped from franked envelopes and correspondence. 14"x17" leather covers with embossed onset label, a.e.g. Approximately 80 leaves, each with one to six clipped signatures. Penciled headings indicate Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, Marquesas' galore. Note: Given the format and vintage, we presume all signatures are… Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. Fine. 1923. 1st US.. 8vo, black cloth, t.e.g., gilt emblem on front, paper labels. Fir st American edition.The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Gu ards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sour ces, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the deat h in action of his son John at the Battle… Read more about this item

Macmillan, New York. 1928. 1st ed.. Inscribed by Garland, with added signature of Rudy . CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to ba ck free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing p age. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two… Read more about this item

London: Effingham Wilson. Fair. 1833. 1st ed.. Full title: Sunday in London, Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts, by Ge orge Cruikshank, a Few Words by a Friend of His; with a Copy of S ir Andrew Agnew's Bill. With frontispiece, engraved title, nine f ull-page woodcuts and three vignettes. 1st ed., 12mo, full polish ed tan calf, gilt rules and lettering,… Read more about this item

NY/East Aurora: The Roycroft Shop. 1899. 1st ed. 12mo, handmade paper, gray-green limp suede covers with gilt titl es, red satin paste-downs and tie. #557/950 copies, signed by Elb ert Hubbard. Fine; backstrip lightly faded and light fade line ac ross top of upper cover. [Livingston suppl. p. 137] .

London Chapman and Hall . Fair. 1839. 1st edition. First edition in book form. 1st state. 8vo, three-quarter crushed black morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands. viii, 526 pp. t.e.g. . e/frontispiece which is often missing. Other points: p.526 l.18 having the words 'reeledbefore' run together and all plates follo wing p.120 with… Read more about this item

London: Ackermann & Co. Poor. 1853. 1st edition. London: Ackermann & Co, , (1853). 1st ed., 4to approx.. 12-3/4” x 9-3/4”. Green cloth with large pictorial paper paste-on. 64 pages. Each page illustrated with elaborate b/w etchings An alpha bet book, including the proper phonetics for the English language . Poor; internally sound but substantially shaken; occasional… Read more about this item

London: n.p.. Fair. Hardcover. 1720. 1st edition. Full title: Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE, in two parts. The first describing the wars in the yea rs 1644, 45, 46. The 2nd part containing an account of Montrose's Negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland from th e year 1647, to the… Read more about this item

Bath: Printed for Private Circulation. Good. 1873. 1st ed.. Inscribed by author . 1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations an d lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wo rdsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which… Read more about this item